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Barcode30293102314841
StatusChecked Out
LocationClark County
Call NoB Uhle
TitleDestroy this house : a memoir / Amanda Uhle.
AuthorUhle, Amanda, author.
CollectionNF Biography
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102314841B Uhle10/9/2025 Due on 11/24/2025Clark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 1668083442
International Standard Book Number 9781668083444
Personal Name Uhle, Amanda, author.
Title Statement Destroy this house : a memoir / Amanda Uhle.
Edition Statement First Summit Books hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Summit Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2025.
Physical Description 340 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary, Etc. "The Long family's love was fierce, their lifestyle bizarre, and their deceptions countless. Once her parents were gone, Amanda Uhle realized she was closer to them than anyone else, yet she found herself utterly confounded by the lives they had led. Amanda's striving fashion designer mother and her charismatic wheeler-dealer father wove a complex life together that spanned ten different homes across five states over forty perplexing years. Throughout her childhood, as her mother's hoarding disorder flourished and her father's schemes crumbled, contradictions abounded. They bartered for dental surgery and drove their massive Lincoln Town Car to the food bank. When financial ruin struck, they abandoned their repossessed mansion for humble parish housing, and Amanda's father became a preacher. They swung between being filthy rich and dirt poor, devious and virtuous, lonely and loved, fake and real. In Destroy This House, Amanda sets out to document her parents' unbelievable exploits and her own hard-won escape into independence. With humor and tenderness, Uhle has crafted a heartfelt and utterly unique memoir, capturing the raucousness, pain, joy, and ultimately, the boundless love that exists between all parents and children." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Uhle, Amanda.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Parenting.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Swindlers and swindling.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Parent and child.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Compulsive hoarding.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Dysfunctional families.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Hoarders.
Index Term-Genre/Form Biographies.
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Index Term-Genre/Form Humor.
Index Term-Genre/Form Informational works.

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